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XP SP2 v SP3
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Just put XP SP3 on my macbook about an hour ago and it works perfectly so far, so i'd recommend getting SP3. Make sure you find a proper tutorial online on how to do it, i've seen plenty of people screwing up the installation because of a lack of knowledge
And make sure you download the Boot Camp 2.1 updater from the Apple Boot Camp Support page, then run it from within Windows when your installation is complete and working, as it updates some of the Apple supplied drivers to work correctly with SP3. Be sure to download the correct version of the 2.1 updater BTW- there are different ones for XP, Vista 32 and Vista 64.
Also, you might want to download and print Apple's nice Boot Camp Installation Guide at the page I mentioned which you can follow along to make the use of the Boot Camp Assistant and the installation of Windows pretty straight forward.
Also, you might want to download and print Apple's nice Boot Camp Installation Guide at the page I mentioned which you can follow along to make the use of the Boot Camp Assistant and the installation of Windows pretty straight forward.
Just did a clean install of Windows XP the other day.
Applied SP3 and got it all up to date.
it works fine wiht all my apps thusfar, havent ran into any issues with it.
but immediately after installing do apply the 2.1, i think it will be fine after the fact since SP3 will be dault on the install disk you get i assume.
Applied SP3 and got it all up to date.
it works fine wiht all my apps thusfar, havent ran into any issues with it.
but immediately after installing do apply the 2.1, i think it will be fine after the fact since SP3 will be dault on the install disk you get i assume.
Just BTW, don't do what I did.
Had XPSP2 installed wonderfully for Boot Camp and Parallels, but I rarely need the Boot Camp. So when SP3 came out I decided to I installed SP3 from within Parallels and have now lost the ability to boot from Boot Camp due to some registry entries that were not properly made to the BC hardware configuration.
Some day I'll have to Slipstream SP3 onto my install CD and perform a repair on the install.
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Had XPSP2 installed wonderfully for Boot Camp and Parallels, but I rarely need the Boot Camp. So when SP3 came out I decided to I installed SP3 from within Parallels and have now lost the ability to boot from Boot Camp due to some registry entries that were not properly made to the BC hardware configuration.
Some day I'll have to Slipstream SP3 onto my install CD and perform a repair on the install.
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Yep me too! You MUST SLIPTSTREAM SP-3 or you will SUFFER the loss of your bootcamp partition.
If you start with SP-2 DO NOT DOWNLOAD SP-3!!! Man I found out the hard way TWICE...
I have two Macs. The first one I upgraded my XP SP2 to SP3 using the automatic downloader and I had to delete my entire Boot Camp and reinstall parallels 3. Later when given the option to upgrade to SP3 I declined.
My new MBP I installed a new disc with XP SP3 after creating Boot Camp. It works perfectly both in Boot Camp and Parallels 3. Parallels 4 was a different story. I downgraded back to 3.
My new MBP I installed a new disc with XP SP3 after creating Boot Camp. It works perfectly both in Boot Camp and Parallels 3. Parallels 4 was a different story. I downgraded back to 3.
I have made a Slipstreamed SP-3 too and installed it with no problems on my new MacBook. Works with both Bootcamp and Parallels 3.X
That being said, I have not heard of ANYONE who has been successful at upgrading to SP-3 using Windows Update.
Probably, but it doesn't matter, you can just download the necessary files from Apple's site.
I installed XP on a 2007 Macbook Pro, and it was actually probably the easiest install I've ever done. Apple did a great job!
The biggest issue with XP (not Vista) is just that it has to be SP2 or higher. My old copy was SP1, so I had to go through the process of slipstreaming it to be SP2. It was...well it all ended up working, but it's harder than it should be. Microsoft ought to just release a GUI tool to do that. Like "where's the original disc? Where's the copy of SP3? Okay wait...now burn this to disc!" and you're done...but instead it's all command line based or using third party tools.
Considering how many normal people now have a reason to need to do this, they should make an easy versions, not just the developers type tools.
I installed XP on a 2007 Macbook Pro, and it was actually probably the easiest install I've ever done. Apple did a great job!
The biggest issue with XP (not Vista) is just that it has to be SP2 or higher. My old copy was SP1, so I had to go through the process of slipstreaming it to be SP2. It was...well it all ended up working, but it's harder than it should be. Microsoft ought to just release a GUI tool to do that. Like "where's the original disc? Where's the copy of SP3? Okay wait...now burn this to disc!" and you're done...but instead it's all command line based or using third party tools.
Considering how many normal people now have a reason to need to do this, they should make an easy versions, not just the developers type tools.
There are actually 3rd party applications that make this SIMPLE-I have used several, but the most recent one I used for my new MB is called "nLite".
The only things you need for this is the original XP disc and to download a full copy of SP-3 (and a burnable CD). This program is SIMPLE to use.
One thing, it is a WINDOWS program-so use your friend's computer or existing bootcamp install to make new slipstreams. It is MUCH EASIER than M$'s method for making the slipsteam.
I've never heard of anyone NOT having success in real life. I've installed it on at least 8 systems I can think of, and it's gone flawlessly on all of them.
Only issue I've heard of, is HP was stupid enough to ship systems with both AMD and Intel drivers active at the same time. For some unknown reason that actually WORKED on SP2, but killed SP3 on AMD CPUs. That's not a flaw with AMD's CPUs though, or with Windows, or with SP3...that's entirely HP's fault for being so stupid as to ship systems running drivers for hardware they don't have.
Yeah, I think that's what I ended up using too. It wasn't terrible, but I'm always hesitant to use third party apps if I don't need to...especially with something like that, where theoretically you could do some REALLY nasty things to an OS with a program like that.
I just did the 2.1 boot camp update to fix my BSD issue and now I have no sound?
I did that update after installing SP3 to get everything all in sync. After completing the update, I lost my sound abilities in Windows XP. The device driver is still there, everything seems as if it should be working fine by nothing comes out of the speakers - both the MBP internals and the external ones I have. I went to reinstall, and then got a blue screen. This is getting so frustrating!!!!!!
I did that update after installing SP3 to get everything all in sync. After completing the update, I lost my sound abilities in Windows XP. The device driver is still there, everything seems as if it should be working fine by nothing comes out of the speakers - both the MBP internals and the external ones I have. I went to reinstall, and then got a blue screen. This is getting so frustrating!!!!!!
I meant using Bootcamp-I have tried to use Windows Update and Bootcamp 3 times to get SP-3. Everytime the update process trashes the Bootcamp Windows Boot record.
When installing SP-3 on my last remaining WINDOWS machine-it works fine-obviously.
This point was made to alert BOOTCAMP users not to install SP-3 unless you slipstream it!
Did you UPDATE bootcamp or did you use the original install? If it is original install-you need to put the Leopard Disc 1 into your CD drive after windows restarts and it will automatically install Apple's drivers.
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It was the bootcamp update. I had SP2 running on the version of bootcamp that came with the MBP I picked up a month ago. Worked fine. I updated to SP3 and then started getting BSDs, so I am now attempting to update boot camp to see if it resolves the issue. My flash player is also up to date.
It was the bootcamp update. I had SP2 running on the version of bootcamp that came with the MBP I picked up a month ago. Worked fine. I updated to SP3 and then started getting BSDs, so I am now attempting to update boot camp to see if it resolves the issue. My flash player is also up to date.
Did you do a clean windows install to use SP-3? If you did not, and you manage to get it working-please post how. As I have posted above, I have never been successful at getting SP-2 to update to SP-3 in bootcamp.
Interesting...
To be honest I did not do anything out of the ordinary. As soon as I got my new MBP out of the box I ran bootcamp and made an NTFS partition when I installed XP Pro. I was in windows when it prompted me to update to SP3. It went about its thing normally, updated as if I was on a windows machine. I started getting blue screen of death while gaming on the windows side, which prompted me to check for updates. That landed me here, where I found out about the boot camp update. I installed it, seems to be working find just lacks sound? I am still getting the BSODs by the way.
To be honest I did not do anything out of the ordinary. As soon as I got my new MBP out of the box I ran bootcamp and made an NTFS partition when I installed XP Pro. I was in windows when it prompted me to update to SP3. It went about its thing normally, updated as if I was on a windows machine. I started getting blue screen of death while gaming on the windows side, which prompted me to check for updates. That landed me here, where I found out about the boot camp update. I installed it, seems to be working find just lacks sound? I am still getting the BSODs by the way.
I fixed it
I uninstalled and then reinstalled boot camp software from the osx disc... Now to see if it still blue screens...?
I uninstalled and then reinstalled boot camp software from the osx disc... Now to see if it still blue screens...?